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Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1874-07-20

Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1874-07-20 page 1

mm COLUMBUS, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1874. YOL. XXXY. NO. 168. '' v.- SIEBERT & LILLEY, turers, Printers, Binders, Stationers And Legal Blank Publishers; BOOK BINDING Of every description, by the Edition or tingle Volume. OPEBA HOCSE BUILDING, (Up Stain.) . mr20 ' COLUMBCS. -., State lomnal NHcei High, Pearl and Cbnpel St. J. M. OOHLT. COMLY fc A. W. rBANOISOO. PBANCI8CO, PIIRUHERS AND I'ROPniKTORB. JABIKS M. COHLT, Editor. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY Negro proscription, free whisky and repudiation, are three of the main planks in the Indiana Democratic platform. Samdsl J. Kandall, recently renominated for Congress by Pennsylvania Democrats, took back pay and boasted of it. The Cleveland AMaindealer .suggests Rufus P. Banney as a suitable person to lead the Democracy to defeat in the next Presidential canvass. ' He would do very well. The University boat race at Saratoga finally came off Saturday, and was won by the Columbia crew. The young men of the rival crews are very much dissatisfied, of course. , Vice Pbksident Wilson expresses his belief that if Congress were to meet now he would be able to resume his duties as presiding officer of the Senate. His health has become qui'e robust again. scarcely be excelled, while in the precious metals their , wealth, all , accounts agree, is scarcely excelled in any part of the world. Both mining and stock growing, for which the country furnishes almost unequaled opportunities, are now conducted in the most primitive way, the former scarcely at all with modern machinery and appliances. The unsettled condition of the country politically has repelled capital, and even prevented the investigation that would have made generally known its splendid resources. This instability in government has created an intense and pervading feeling for strong, permanent and free institutions, such as can be had only by annexation to the United States. To these considerations may be added the further ones that the Mexican Government is not only ifhable to pay claims for its military seizures and reprisals, but is in great need of money ; that it is scarcely able to maintain its own existence, and much less to afford peace and protection to citizens ; and that the States desiring annexation being distant from the Capital are habitually in a state of revolt against the Federal authorities and almost constantly in conflict with those at home. A1J these and other reasons that might be named give a powerful impetus to annexation sentiment which cannot be long in subduing the old Spanish prejudice against it, and which not unlikely will bring speedily into our possession the territories which of all others on this continent, probably, we may annex with moBt propriety and profit. The Hon. Lewis D. Campbell has published a six column letter opposing adoption of the new Constitution. General Durbin Ward has printed a few of the reasons why, in his judgment, it should be adopted. - , . There is much Democratic groaning in spirit over the discovery that Cowan, the Congressional candidate of the Democrats of the Fourteenth District, is a bank President. It is even feared that he may be tainted with Jacksonian hard money notions. The cable report that the Carlists have seized sixteen hundred men, women and children on the Cantabrian coast, to be Bhot in case of an attack by Kepublican forces, is not an improbable story. The Carlist faotion in Spain like the Spanith party in Cuba has given ample evidence that it is entirely capable of such ferocity, Mexican Annexation. A San Francisco paper of recent date has what it calls authentic information that overtures have been made to our Government by that of Mexico to cede us all territory lying north of a line drawn directly from the mouth of the Bio Grande to the Pacific Ocean. The proposition, it is said, will certainly engross a large share of the attention of Congress at its next session, and so confident of its acceptance are many of the shrewdest and heaviest capitalists of the Pacific coast that they have already invested largely in mines located within the territories to be ceded, and in some instances have dispatched miners to work them. The ar- rangement, if carried into effect, will bring under our flag the Btates of Nueva Leon Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, Lower Cali fornia and portions of binaloa and Du rango. ' Whatever truth there may be in this report, the annexation of some, if not all of these neighboring territories to the Union, is only a question of time, and possibly very short time. Some of them as Chihuahua and Nueva Leon for in stance, have been largely settled up by Americans, many of whom are wealthy and influential, and all of course enthusi' astic annexationists. This American ele- ment has been for some time, and is now more than ever, exciting itself to bring about annexation, and has become sum ciently formidable, both in wealth ana" numbers, to exert no inconsiderable in- fluence in that behalf. It is also able to bring to its aid a powerful incentive, bo far as the Mexican authorities are concerned, in the fact that it holds claims, against Mexico for an immense amount, estimated as high, even, as three hundred millions. These claims grow in part out of seizures of property for war purposes by the various organizations called governments, which have ruled, or rather misruled, Mexico for many years past, and for depredations, various in kind and extent, done in violation of treaty stipulations. In payment of these claims, many of which are undoubtedly valid, the Mexican Government ia likely to be constrained, sooner or later, to give up a considerable portion of its territory from sheer inability to raise the necessary means in any other way. Another consideration largely re-enforc ing annexation sentiment is the increas ing deoire among all foreign and many native resident of Mexico for improved communications both internal and external. Railways and the influx of in telligence, enterprise and wealth they are almost sure to bring are alone needed to place some of the border Mexican States among the most desirable and prosperoui regions of this continent. In climate, scenery aid richness of toil they cam Notes on the Chicago Fire. To the Editor or the Ohio State Journal : : The possibilities of a fire in Chicago are very great. A first alarm, that calls out only the engines of a particular district, causei little excitement. A general alarm and a wind from the southwest, bring consternation. Chicago, reasoning from what she knows, remembers the relentless story of '71, and will listen to no other proposition than: "Given, a fire and a southwest wind, and the city can be destroyed in twentyfour houre." There was a fierce wind from thesouth-west on Tuesday, July 14. There was a fire on South Clark street, and people wondered why there was bo much smoke. There was a Becond alarm, and then third, and the engines from the North Side and West Side thundered down the streets. There was new mean- g on men'B faces, and an expression not pleasant to contemplate. There was dan ger, and they were admitting the fact and calculating the chances. Let the unini tiated understand tuat j,a&aite, titarK, Dearborn and State streets and Wabash and Michigan avenues are the great thoroughfares running north and south through the great business center of Chicago, Michigan avenue being nearest the lake and Laoalle the farthest west. I tie fire broke out near Clark, seven blocks, say, eouth of the Grand Facinc Hotel and the new Custom House, situated on Clark; ten blocks south of the Tribune building on Jjearbon; nine blocks soutu of the Palmer House on State, and seven blocks south of the Exposition building on Michigan avenue, or, in short, the fire broke out only three blocks soutn 01 where commence the lines of magnificent stone fronts of New Chicago. . lhe wind was driving the fire north and east. Can not the reader understand the anxiety of the people? The pride, the wealth of New Chicago, was in the line of the fire, and that fire was beyond the control of the Fire Department. What would you do? The Chicago mail answered the question by preparations to getout of the way. w noiesaie aeaiers iweive ami iiur-teen blocks away, called in their wagons, and quietly removed their goods; dealers apa omciau nearer aia me same wuu more emphasis: occupants ot elegant man sions and of miserable shanties began the removal of furniture, and hence the up roar was not alone where the fire was burning, but everywhere over the threatened district. The fire left Clark street, but swept up Dearborn and State Btreets and Wabash avenue, and finally broke through to Michigan avenue. As the wind blew now more from the west, the Clark street line seemed safe and the other lines in danger, and not till midnight, when the tire had reached within one block of the Exposi tion building, was it checked. The conflagration that raged over me sixtv acres ot trie uurni aistrici nas oeen described by others. I give you only lm nressions. Long before dark the post- office wagons, loaded high with mail bags, were living in groups westward and wueei- ng into line across tne river, witn move ment like that of a battery changing position, and the long lines of wagons o Field, Leiter & Co. were moving in the same direction, bo massed as to convey the impression of suddenness, while their movement was like that ot a oaggagi train. The verv svstem and deliberate ness of general movements of this kind made the people punier, x he wild irenzy that was the rule near tne nre seenien 10 nervade the whole city. There was a general rush for the scene of the dUn.tor, and yei women shook wuu iiervouoiicoH and men were as resentful as though you had Btruck them in the face. After dark the scene was only bucu a one as you can Bee in Chicago. Because no other tremendous crowd could have such memories of a fire and no other crowd could express bo well feelings bo peculiar. The fare was tike otner great fires; now snapping and cracking in a shanty, now roaring about a church, now wreathing in sheets ot name a ineaier, leaping across streets, driving firemen before it, bursting out in unexpected places. Rnt the crowd was different. 11 siooa indiirnant. reproachful, howling. It curxed and screamed when a new nnna-ing burned, but never murmured when the indignant firemen turned the water streams on the people who would not get out of their way. 1 he crowd warned mat, fire extinguished, but it seemed on the verge of tearing Its bair and tearing its clothes did you ask how this was to be done. It was a crowd one nunarea ana fifty thousand strong but helpless as a baby. There was another curious element. Great lines of wagons empty wagons-blocked the etreets, or rumbled along in unbroken procession, and got in terrible snares at the crossings. The drivers were not onlv frantic but pitiless. They drove recklessly through the crowds, and when the people turned in their fury and caught wagon, hones and driver and hurled all back, the stranger's sympathy was with the driver until he learned that the only interest these men had in the fire was to ask some poor unfortunate twentyfive or fifty or seventy dollars a load for hauling away his furniture, and then he viewed the fury of the crowd with a malicious sort of satisfaction. There were other wagons piled high with furniture, or with merchandise, peeding away to the West Side; there were hundreds of men, women and children carrying great bundles; there were quantities of furniture thrown out to be trampled under foot, and all the other attributes that go to make up the confusion incident to a great fire. While there was much foolish excite, ment, there was more cool headed work. While many people remote from the fire carried their trunks to the prairie simply !,... Ik.v iltJ fn 1U7I thora uroro hundreds of business men driving quietly! about in their own carriages, making secure valuable papers, and arranging for determined action in case the worst came. The people generally seemed to realize what might come, and while they were furious and defiant in spirit, they yet made preparation to meet the worst. The fire made the night like day, and all minutia of the scene camo out with startling distinctness. There were anxious watchers on and in every building along the business streets, ready for desperate battle, and such use of water as made the buildings safe from flying brands. When, near midnight, the scorched and wearied firemen checked the fire, the crowd that had stood to taunt or cheer, did not stay to congratulate. But another crowd, composed of the watchers and workenylid this, while the masses scattered to their homes, feeling that the crisis was past. On Wednesday there was a falling back into old ways, but with this a feeling of insecurity, because the wind still blew a gale from the southwest. Again at four o'clock the fire alarm sounded; then a second alarm, and then the general alarm called all the department to the WeBt Side. A column of smoke, indefinite and threatening, told where the fire was this time, and again there was a panic. On Tuesday night the mails, merchandise and all kinds of goods had been taken to the West Side. Here, in the center of a wooden district, was a fierce conflagration driving east toward the main business section. The West Side is a great residence quarter, and West Siders who left homes to look after their business on Tuesday, now hurriedly left business to look after homes. It is a standing remark that a tire once started on the West Side will weep the entire territory, and people be- 'eve it. althoustwthere have been a dozen fires in that part of the city easily controlled. But this was different. There was a high wind from the prairie, and if the fire was two or three miles out the whole West Side was in danger. The fire, however, when the anxious West Siders reached it, was only half a mile went of the river and on a line halt a mite norm ot the business nneoi me noutn Side. But as it was, it was terrible and meant danger in every direction. It is pitiful to see tired firemen striving against tierce flame, but it does the average human heart good to see tired men accomplish a good work. Sixty houses burned in an incredibly short space of time, but the hremen stopped tne grana progress u was making to other districts and the Becond panic was at an end. When you talk of fire in Chicago you recall memories of lost homes, of fearful disaster, of creeping through dark tunnels, of standing scorched and bewildered in the lake, of untold hardships, and a crowd stands before a raging fire hard and desperate because of such memories. But when men are burnt out, they accept the situation, and have most astonishing faith in the future. The main rule ot action Tako things in time, and a common remark on Tuesday night was: xes, the building is fireproof, and the fire isn't coming this way exactly; but that doesn t prove anything, you, know, well gei ready to pull out, all the same." .Nobody argued the case, sso one made any boaHts. No man reassured any other man; no woman advised any other woman to Btav in her house. In the pres ence of a great fire the Chicago man is an individual of little faith. He will tight fire to the last, but he looks well to the line of retreat. Of course, the people are odd. A lady who made a long march in 1871 in a scant petticoat, as soon as the fire of Tuesday became serious proceeded deliberately to dress herself in.her best, and her neiglibori did not (auoi at her. They had their own private notions about tying up neat tittle bundles of valuables, always including a lunch. Servant girls dashed off reckless- lv. intent on placing ereit bundles of clothing in places of safety, and even the children were panicky. One iittle four year old West Sider, catching the spirit of the hour, would (whenever ahe heard, a lresh juvenile rendering oi ineuiBaBiers, past or present), rush into the house, lay vigorous hands on her kitten, and clasp ing it in her arms, seat herself on the front steps, watch the smoke, and calmly await the dire event. Her principal so licitude, however, was for the bears in the enclosure at the park. Effect of lniHKinattnn. The Troy Times relates the following, which may strike the reader as the effects of the imagination of the boy or of the writer: "A lad named Curnmings fell from a. car at Whitehall Wednesday, and the train passed over his arm, severing it. The lad. with great presence of mind, lay still until the train had passed, and thus escaped further injury. When tue lan was taken home his arm was brought af: ter him. It was thrown into a pail, when the noor little fellow screamed with pain. The severed limb was then placed in a box and buried in the garden. Shortly after he said that something wa crawli ng on the inside of the hand. I he limb was eihumed. when a large worm was discovered In the palm of the hand. A large jar was then obtained and it necanie normmiv to crowd the arm in. when the sufferer fairly went into paroxysms of pain. The limbwasplaccdinajarpartiy filled with alcohol, and then replaced in the ground. The little fellow complained that his arm and fingers were in a ter ribly cramped position, and that the tittle finger and the next one were growing together. The jar was then taken up, when the limb waa found crowded and cramped as described. The boy kpew nothing of the disposition of his arm." BY TELEGRAPH TO THE OHIO STATE JOURNAL Night Dispatches. WE THREE. History of the Tilton, Beecher and . Bowen Tripartite Covenant. What the Intermediary Wilkinson has to Bay About lt-Tiltoa' Ex-nlnnatton or hi lllnmlnil iron the . Independent He Aeenea ' lleeeher. Recant, and Again AccusesHe Vows Vengeance on the Plymouth Pastor, and Applies haughty Terms to bl Wife-Shame, inl Behavior Charged upon Beecher by Bowen Highly Seasoned Food for Ctosslps-To be Continued In Our Next. New York, July 19. The Herald prints a statement of Samuel Wilkinson before the Beecher investigating committee, the substance of which is that in the last week of March, 1872, Tilton came to his office and took from a pocket a worn proof pre-s of a letter he proposed to publish in the next issue of the Golden Age unless H. W. Beecher did him justice. The letter, dated January 1, 1871, was addressed to Henry C. Bowen, and acknowledges receipt of the sudden notice of breaking his two contracts with the Independent and Brooklyn Union, and goes on to say that it was in the early part of the rebellion that Bowen first" intimated to him that Beecher had committed the crime of adultery, for which, if he (Bowen) should expose him, he would be driven from the pulpit. "From that time forward Bowen's references to the subject," says Tilton, "were frequent. On the 25th of December, 1870, at an interview in Bowen's house, at which Oliver Johnson was present, you, Bowen, spoke firmly and indignantly of Beecher as an unsafe visitor in families of his church. You alluded by name to a woman, now a widow, whoFe husband's death you did not doubt was hastened by his knowledge that Mr. Beecher had maintained with her improper intimacy. You informed us that Mr. Beecher had made to you a confession of guilt, and with tears implored your forgiveness. Alter Mr. Johnson retired you related to me the case of another woman whom Beecher took in his arms, by force threw her down upon a sofa, accomplished upon her his deviit y, and left her. You suggested a demand upon him to quit his sacred office, volunteered to bear such a demand, and to sustain it. This letter you presented to Mr. Beecher at Mr. Free-land's house. "Shortly afterward you sought an interview with me, and with a face livid with rage, threatened with a loud voice that if I ever should inform Mr. Beecher of the statement .you made about his adultery, or should compel you to do as the evidence on which you agreed to sustain the demand for his withdrawal from Brooklyn, you would deprive me of my engagements with the Independent and Union, and if I ever attempted to enter either of those offices you would have me forcibly ejected. I told you I should inform Mr. Beecher or any one el The Philadelphia Led rer says : "The indications of a revival in the domestic iron trade continue to multiply. V learn that the Cambria Iron company, Johnstown, Pa., have within the past week started their rolling null on 'double turn, and the Bessemer steel works ot tne com nanv. which have been running irregu larly for some time past, would now be running on lull time were it not ior in srareitv of water. This iB. indeed, en couraging. The revival could not begin In anv one uursu t of all our various in dustries that would giveevide nee of being general and lasting than that of iron. A wew "club-house is to be put up in London at a cost of about 81,000,000, and 2500 members are to be admitted. The flair is being managed by party mag nates, among them Mr. Gladstone, the Dukf s of Devonshire, Westminster and Bt. Albans, Lords Granville, Kimberly, Morelv. ec. and Mr. Bright. The en trance fee is to be 31 10. Equitable Insurance company's building. He was flushed and sullen. There was a hitch in the money payment). He said abruptly that he would not sign the agreement, and that it would have to be altered before he would sign it. Kindling in anger as he talked, he said that in the negotiation Mr. Bowen had been well taken care of by Mr. Claflin and Mr. Beeoher, but he bad been left out in lhe cold, with the money due from Bowen unpaid. I combated this fancy kindly, and tried to soothe him, and hold him to the arrangement be had made, but he flew out wild and declared with the utmost passion he would never while he lived sign a paper that Would disable him from pursuing Henry Ward Beecher, and he demanded a copy of his paragraph on the tripartite agreement that he might alter it. I made a oopy for him and be sat down at the table and began to scratch and interline it, but he rose up and carried his wdrk away uncompleted, Before he left I gathered from what he said that Bowen had refused to pay the . full amount of his claim, and that his law suit would have to go on; but the full amount was paid wlthm a dav or two thereafter, and the tripartite agree ment waa executed, not the one 1 dratted and which was accepted by all the parties, but a modification of that. 1 used my last copy of this instrument in my testimony before the committee, and can now only say that all the portions of the agreement which are italicised were omit ted from the agreement finally executed. The efhcacv of the covenants I aimed at was lost and the compact defeated. Tilton, in modifying his paragraph, backed out of his disavowal ot his im putations on Mr. Beecher and hia admissions that they were untrue, and carefully secured to himself the largest libertv to pursue the great preacher forever with innuendoes. My testimony before the committee shows the changes in the tripartite agreement as originally shown, and which all the par ties to it had heartily approved and had promised to sign. It also shows my earn est remonstrances against permitting these charges to be made, and my warning of the mischievous consequences that would inevitably follow. The following are the omitted portions of the original agreements: " 'I, Henry C. Bowen, know nothing derogatory to Mr. Beecher's reputation as a clergyman or a man, and I expressly disavow the charges, imputations and innuendoes reported to have been made by me and set forth in a letter written to me by Theodore Tilton on the first day of January, 1871, a copy of which letter is hereto annexed, and I declare that those charges, imputations and innuendoes are without any foundation in fact, to the best of my knowledge and belief. ("I, Theodore Tilton, returning of my free will to a man whom I have loved as a father, thus renew and confirm my faith in Henry Ward Beecheras agrandly good and generous man. I, too, disavow each ami all of the imputations and charges in the said annexed letter repeated and contained, and any and all other imputations upon his character and conduct which have been said to come from me, I disavow and covenant never to repeat or renew.' " SARATOGA. se according to the dictates of my judg ment. Had your violent language ceased ringing in my ears when I received your summary notices breaking my contraot?" Mr. Wilkeson Bays he wassnocned wun the mischievousness of the matter Tilton threatened to publish. He remonstrated against it. Discussion ensued, on Tilton's part passionate and noisy. He (tilton) complained that Bowen had dismissed ini without cause and ruined mm in fame, prospect and estate, and had crowned this wrong by refusing to pay a large debt for editorial service ot which he was in pressing need, compelling him bring suit to collect it. Jtiis nexi plaint was that Mr. Beecher had not helped bim in his troubles, that he was lying crushed on the siaewaiic in jirooK-lvn and Beecher who had such power that with his little finger he could have fted up and reinstated him; saw him in is agonv and ruin and passed by in si lence and inifference. Rising into dramatic rage, tramping the room frorn corner to oorner, and speaking with intense passion, he declared, "1 will nave revenge on him 1 I will pursue him to his grave 1" "It was clear to me." says Wilkeson, that what Tilton wanted was money, and that bis purpose in coming to me waa to raise money. He felt my omce calm and happy in the prospect ot an arrangement. outlined to him what Bhouia immedi ate! v give bun in hand the money Bower owed him, restore nis oia relations with Beecher and Bowen, and procure for him flattering mention ip tne Independent, and a handsome notioe the Christian union oi ms newspaper enterprise. ine wen known tripartite agreement that came from the negotiation was initiated after this interview. Bowen agreed to pay forthwith Tiltpn'a unpaid saary and to publish a reparatory card in the Independent. On the night of Aprtl 2, 1872, when the agreement was ready for signa ture, Tilton was in a happy frame of mind, and overfjowed' with love and admiration of Beecher." Wilkeson gives the terms of the agreement as originally drafted. This paper was read at a meet ing of four gentlemen, of whom tilton was one. He was charmed with it, and said he could conscientiously and heartily inscribe hia name to every word of it. -1 . i it . i. . would sign It tweiva tliu uci i mm would Induce Bowen to sign It once, and in ilia eagerness took up a pen to sign, but vna rpatTRinetl bv the suggestion inai Bowen might be less willing to sign it Tilton should sign it hrst. it was carried without Tilton's signature. Wilkeson continues as follows : in a full and kipd conversation between me and Tilton, after the meeting on the night of April 2d broke up. he replied to a clear- cut question I put to him, that the only wrong Mr. Beecher bad ever done him had been to address Improper language to his wife, and that for that he had in his hands an ample and satisfactory apoigoy. I repeated the mention of a graver injury than that, made by a person whose is for mal inn was alleged to be derived in sart directly from himself, in part at second hand, from a confession ot nis wue. un great spirit he denied the truth of these statements. He called the informant at second hand a seiually morbid monomania;, who had imagined every word she uttered. He scornfully said tnere was not a shadow of truth in her story. He exnreFsed amatement that the other Per son should state that he had ever said there was anything criminal in Beecher i conduct, and denied in the fullest and most energetic manner that he bad ever said so or said anything that could be so construed by a truthful and healthy mind, and be returned to his pre vioua declaration that Beecher's sole of fense wss improper language to bis wife, and repeated anew and again re pes ted tnat tne written comenion ana spoiogj Tub Grangers of California have re solved t" start a bank with a capital of $5,000,000. One million has already been ..k,tU Th have rtiarlenxl fifty -i- :. v,. r, r v..,!, he had in .keening was ample for that expect scon to send all their grain to mar- wrong. The next morning, on the Sd of ket under their eoleoontrol. April, TUton came to taj office ia the FOREIGN. CUBA. BEPOETED SPANISH VICTORY. ! Havana, July 19. A column of troops from Holguen have encountered the insurgents in the hills of Bijorn, under Calixto Garcia. The position of the latter was captured after five hours' fihgting, and the insurgents dispersed, leaving several dead and prisoners. The Spaniards lost one private killed and one officer and seven privates wounded. The column, after provisioning, started in pursuit of the insurgents. DKTAIM OF DOCKBAY'S TBIAIi. ' - New Yoek, July 19. A Havana letter furnishes the details of the trial f Dockray at Puerto Principe, and his condemnation to death. His defense was a declaration that he was an American citizen, a denial of jurisdiction of the Court or any council of war, and a statement of the facts of his case. He grants the . fact that he was in communication with insurgents, wrote letters to Maximo Gomez, to the Marquis of Santa Luccia and President Cisneros, and that he wrote an account of the battle of Narango and brought out some letters from insurgents, but says his motive was self-defense. He compromised himself to save himself three weeks of exposure, of danger and half starva tion. He was held against bis own will within the insurgent Tines, and it was to escape therefrom that he did acts for whicn be is charged with being an active insurgent. lhe Spanish fiscal agent appears to have accused Dockray of being agent of the United States Government sent to Cuba in the interest of belligerent rights of the insurgents. FRANCE. MINISTERIAL CBISIS. Fabis, July 19. The crisie at Versail les continues. General Cissey will proba bly be appointed Minister of the Interior ad interim. The Duke De Broglie has failed to form a Cabinet btcauae the Legitimits are determined in their oppo sition to the organization of MacMahon's power. FRIENDSHIP OF ITALY. Chevalier Nigra, Italian Minister to France, was present at a fete given in Avignon in honor of Petracb, and in a speech declared Italy would be eternally grateful to France, and he rejoices in being able to give assurances ot the cordial friendship of the two countries. SPAIN. VIGOROUS MEASURES. Madrid, Jnly 18. Decrees have been issued declaring all Spain in a state of siege, sequestrating the property of Car-lUts, whose eBtateB will be held liable to a heavy penalty, to relatives of Republicans slain, and finally creating a special reserve of 125,000 men. The Government announces in its official address that it will not permit the shooting of prisoners in retaliation for Carlist atrocities. ISABELLA. The Gpoca denies that ex-Queen Isabella intends to revoke her act of abdication.BT MAIL AND TELEGRAPH. The Great Boat Kace Tabes place at 1,ui...Uif Cnlnmbiit 'r- W lis th Sixteen Mlniile ami 1'11'ly ecourt. Saratoga. N. Y.. July 18. About fif teen thousand people were assembled at the lake this morning to witness tiie University boat-race, set down for 10 a. m. The lake was smooth as gW, At 9:45 the first gun find; at 10:20 the second, and the starting gun at 1U:4. . All the boats got off handsomely, Co lumbia at a half mile taking the lead. Then Trinity made a spurt, overhauled Co- umbia, and at the end ot a mile took the lead away from Yale, which. in the strug gle, had got ahead, but at that moment fouled and fell behind. Princeton came up close on Trinity. 1 he other crews were about in a line bthlnd, At the mile and a half post Columbia came to the front again, with Harvard struggling sharply, the remain der maintaining their former position. At the two mile point uoiumbia was still in advance, with Cornell making a purt to overtake her, and passing Har vard. At the two and a half mile point Co- umbia was still ahead, with Wesleyan, which now showed great vigor, pressing her Bharply and steadily. J he fast half mile was then one contin uous exciting pull between uoinmoia, Wesleyan, Harvard, and Dartmouth, and they came in in that order, Columbia ahead obout two boat lengths, and making the distance in sixteen minutes and fifty seconds, the winning crew were greeted with tremendous cheering. un reaching tne snore a. n ran k, cap tain and stroke fainted. He was immediately lifted by the crew and carried on their shoulders to Moon's Lake House,but before reaching the house he had entirely recovered. The scene following the race was one long to be remembered, and was only marred by the failure of Yale to partici pate beyond Mill roint, at which, plage Pae was taking the lead with a good prospect for keeping it. ARCH0LO6ICAL. strange Rnlna In Arlcona-Foot- Prluls of a Pro-Historic Race. LANCASTER. Sudden Death f'om Heart Qlsease nrieiiernne tiiyfuiiii. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Lancaster, July 18.A German res ident of this city, named Frederick Fahr, fell dead this morning on the porch of his parents' resldenoe. The Temperanoe Convention here to day was pretty well attended. Rev. J. H. Gardner, of Columbus, addressed the au dience. Attempt to Hldnap Two Women. New Yore, July 19. A Sunday pa per publishes an account of an attempt to kidnap two working girls from this city to a bouse or ill tame in Havana. They were hired by a man giving the name of Dr. Bender, as cook and chamber- man, and sent out on the steamer City of Havana. Un arrival they were olaimed by a woman of ill repnte calling herself bender's wire, but under advice ot the steamship officers refused to accompany her and returned to Aew lork, tne otneers paying their tare. Fatal Fall an a Pitchfork. Evansville, Ind., July 19. William S. Mixler, a printer, of Brooklyn, New York, aged twenty, fell from straw stack about six miles down the river yesterday, with a pitchfork in hia hand. A tine of the fork was driven into hit left side and imbedded in hia spine, where it broke, idle died In three hours, lhe tine, eight inohes long, was taken out at the pott siorfeia to-day. Victim of the Bostan Boy Bf anlerer. Boston, July 19. An examination of the rem sins of Eaty Currnn made to dav by Dr. Dougherty, shows that the body of the girl had been terribly mutilated with a knife in a similar manner to the boy Millan for whose mnrder yonng Pomomy It now hi Id. The Coroner's inqnest will begin to-morrow. Pomeroy's mother and brother are still in custody. Hon. William Hunter, Assistant Secretary of State, arrived at New York fiom .Europe yesterday. Brevet Colonel R. M. Hall, Quartermaster First Artillery, died at Summer-ville, 8. C, Saturday. The wounded from the Canastraga railway accident have been brought to Buffalo, and are doing well. The steamers City of Chester, Adriatic and Egypt, from Liverpool, and the France, from London, have arrived at New York. The large packing and slaughter house at Buffalo, owned by Metcalf & Gushing, adjoining the New York Central livestock yards, was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. Loss $30,000; insured for $15,000. The yacht Foam, which left Toronto a week ago for Niagara, was found Friday, three miles out, with only three feet of the masts above water. The crew, consisting of nine persons, have been given up aB lost. Ohl. Henry Thomas and Simon Spring were upset in a skiff on the Miami at Dayton Saturday, and drowned. Mrs. William Ramsey was attacked by large monkey at Dayton yesterday after noon, and severely hurt. On Saturday morning lant a letter to the compositors of the Cincinnati Gazette office was read by the foreman, informing them that the company had decided to "shake" the Union and reduce the rate of composition to forty five cents per thousand ems. The Union having previously refused to accede to this reduction, all the old hands of the office pome thirtyfiveor forty in number -were summarily dis charged, even the foreman, Mr. Jones. -r . ... . - who bad been in tne omce ten or twelve years, losing his official bead. Iheir places were tilled by twentyslx independ ent printers who had come to the city from Indianapolis under the teadership of Harry Armstrong, a former foreman of the office. It wss expected that the nc tion of the Gazette company would be followed by the Enquirer and Times offices the latter reducing its rates from forty- Beven to tortytwo cents a thousand ems but as yet the expectation has not been fulfilled. Foelurn. Cuenea surrendered to the Carlists on the 15th. The steamship Illinois, from Philadel phia, has arrived at QueenBtown. The steamship Hermann, from New York, has arrived at Southampton. Minister dishing gave a farewell dinner at Madrid Saturday, in honor of aenor Montilla, the newly appointed Ambassa dor to Washington, who is about to de part for the United Mates. The Government has increased the stringency of the regulations restricting I'ltramontane agitations, Ulubs and the clerical press will be closely watched and vigorously dealt with for disloyal or illegal man'featationa. The London Daily Telegraph announces that the proprietors of that paper have united with Mr. James Gordon Bennett in organizing an expedition of African discovery, under the command of Mr. Henry M. btaniey. Alta California.! On the bank of the-Gila river, or abont ten miles below Florence, are the ruins of a nose singular structure a building untune u;r uuyseven leet, Duut ot adobe, which is now so hard that a pick cannot be driven into it. There are two walls a building within a building which are separated about ten or twelve feet, and which are between twentyeight and thirty inches thick at the base. In the walla, up about nine, feet, and extending entirely around the structure, was placed at the time the building was put up, a row of cedar beams, which probably served to brace and strengthen the building. The ends of these timbers, which are still in a fair state of preservation, show that they were consumed by fire, up to and in some instances, part way through the wall. There are now three stories of the wall still standing in one place. The windows are long and narrow, and seem to have been placed where they were needed, and without regard to external symmetry. The doors are at the corners. At the top of the inside walls are several round holes about the size of a hat. The art of plastering seems to have been perfect in those days, aB the inner wall is still (smooth, and of a yellowish white color. What this building was used for can only be conjectured, as it stands in an open space, surrounded by the same class of ruins as those above referred to. It is prubable that it was a church, or, if that people did not worship God, idols may have received adoration there. Near this building, and at other points among these ruined cities, are still standing rows of cedar posts, set on very accurate lines. The upper ends of these posts look old, and have been worn by the elements, still they are in a good state of preservation. The portions that are in the ground are much larger, and are very little aftected by age. The same class of ruins described above can be found all over Southern Arizona, New Mexico Territory, and the norfhern part of Mexico, wherever there are fertile valleys and flowing streams. Little or nothing iB known of the people who built these cities, or when they existed. The Indians say that long ago the inhabitants of these places were summoned ofl to the South, and engaged in a battle in which they were all killed. They probably derived this story from the early AmericanB or Mexicans who visited this section and seeing the ruins, concluded that they were formerly occupied by Borne of the semi-civilized tribes with which Montezuma, the Mexican King, made war, and perhaps plundered their cities and burned them. This is simply conjecture. If these were the facts, as Montezuma kicked up his troubles about three hundred and sixty years ago, we would probably have had some account of it. And then again, there are, we believe, no such pottery and household implements in Mexico as have been found in the Arizona ruins. The theory that the wanderers through Asia.about 1000 or 1800 years ago, crossed Behring'sStraitand made their way down the Pacific coast of this continent into the temperate and torrid zones, may, and probably does, come nearer to offering an explanation. But what has become of this race and Its history? Wci-o bvU blotted out at once, and ii so, by whom? Now that the bloody Apaches are being sub-jugated and exterminated, a fine oppor- Hiuuy uuereu ior acanemies oi natural science and men with money to expend for the enlightenment of mankind, to encourage and aid in exploring these ancient nurieo cities, and to bring to light what has long been enveloped in mystery. Who will be the first to move in this mat ter? EXCURSION TO Dayton and Soldier's Home! WEDNESDAY, JULY 8d, QIVHN BY Iron Castle.No. I.Anclent Order of Knights of the Mystic Chain. TRAIN LEAVES SHORT LINE DEPOT at 5 o'clock a. m. Fare round trip, including Street railroad, $2. Children under 12 years half price. All are invited. Bring your bnsketa. jyiQ'it HOTEIi OBANOB ! LONG STREET HOUSE, H'tST I.OXG ST., (Near High), COLOMBUw, OHIO. D. VAN EVERY, Proprietor. THIS HOUSE! HAS BEEN REFITTED and ri furnished and is now first-class in every respect, and has been reopened by the former p oprietor of the Town Street House The New Albany Stage leaves this House Tuesdajs, 1 hursdays and Haturdaj s, at 7 o'clock a. m., for fow Albany and way stations. jv20 3m Notice to Contractors. Q BALED PROPOSALS k3 CBIVED WILL BE RE- at. ttlA TnwmMn Rati in Franklin township, up to THE 3Sth OF JULY, 1874, Until 2 o'clock p m., for filling a eulvert at Reinhard a, on the Georgeville road Also, for filling a culvert at Halnss, last of the Georgevil e road. The work to be done un der the directio- of the Trustees.' Payments will be made when work is done. The Trustees reserve the right to reject any or all bids. PK TER SOH WABTZ, J. W. A LKIRE, .u.. July 18, 1874. jy!8 dtwll) Trustees. BELL BROTHERS, ABE OFFERISO GREAT DABGAINS IN ' FRUIT JARS Four different kinds. $1 per doz. up. ; Three Popular Patterns JELLY GLASSES, 50 cts. per doz. up To Dealers we can offer Inside figures on FKFIT JARS AND WAX, Direct from factory or from stock. Jars will be scarce. Urder early. Good Stock of CnnA, Fine GLtSSWAKE Aud STONE CHINA. HOTELS, GRANGERS and others, consult your interest and call on us. NEEDING GAS FIXTURES I Look at our nice stuck and save big profits. BELL BROTHERS, 122 SOUTH HIGH STREET. myl eod 3m l4p DIED. Ziiimer On Saturday, at 91 n. m.. after a long ana painmi illness, at tne residence ot h s father, No. CO East Mound street, Jo N William Zimmkr, eldest son of John F. Zim-mer, aged twentyeight years, three months and eleven da s. tuneral from the late residence (No. 60 bast mound street), to-morrow ( Tuesday. 21st,) at 9 o'clock a m. Friends and acquaintances are invited to attend without further notice. Lonabd On Thursday, the 16th inst. in Mariou township, Franklin couuty, Ohio, Berths I.ejna.d, son of Theodore Leonard, aged ihirtRen years The funeral will tate place to-day (Monday) at 10Ji a. m., at St. Joseph's Oathedral, mis city. HsL Saturday ni.ht, at 9Ji o'clock, Mrs. Annii H. Heal, of consumption, in the twenty-lii st year of her ge. Funeral ibis (Monday) afternoon, at 3 o dock, from the Baptist Church. The rela tives ana menus are invited to attend. ' iLSllB I STRAITSVILLE And HOCKING COAL! STONE SEWER PIPE. OFFICE AND YARD t Cor. Fourth and Naghten Streets. Branch Office 161 SOUTH HIGH, (Opera House Building.) Also, Dealers in Drain Tile of all Sizes Agents for lleenon's Celebrated PhcBnix Hydraulic Cement. ' ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. an20 eod ly I&4p Washington, The French postal treaty has been signed by the fresident. The grand jury of the District Criminal Court bas found true bills against A. 11 Underwood, member of the late District Lezislatnre, and engaged as mefsececr the District Controller's office, and Thomas B. Warwick, a street broker and clerk in the same office, both colored, charged with forgery and ottering forged orders for certificates of pay of the police and hremen. OlIlltlAKY. Pied July 16th, at the r sidence of his father, Bebub, son of Theodore and Hannah Leonard, in tbe thirteenth year of hi. ace. One more home is desolate; more hearts nave put on mourning; more eyes are weeping tears, and all because of the old Bud stury, Death I De.r little Beutix I We can scarcely name Death sad when speaking of him. True, hiideath has made in the hearts of those who knew and loved him a void that can never be rilled tilt in the beautifal Home beyond, be bids them welcome and gladdens them with his angel s songs, learn ed at the feet of God. But then h s life was so beautiful his death bo lovelr. that even while we are grieving in our hearts' deepest depths, there is a warm feeling of thankful- ne.-s that boa nas taken him so earlr eie bis purity was sullied by eanhly stain: We have known few who were so entirity the idol of a family as little Bestir, because we have Known so tew with wavs aB winning. simplicity as (harming and chuacter at lovely. If our poor sympathy could iu the leaBt console the afUioted family how gladly would we offer it, and even while we know how powerless it is. right earnestlv we ten der it Hill. What matter to them now that the summer sun shines out so t-loriouslr that the happy birds, in the fulness of their joy, warble forth their merry songs; that the dainty flowers smile npon thini and woo them with their delicate beauty and delicious fragrance ? bat matter we sav. for their hearts are walling and earth to them Beems shorn of its gladness, because he, tbeir dtrl-ing, who lored lhe sunshine, the birds. and the nowers, nas closed nu eves upon them. never, never to gaze on any lesser loveliness than that which fills up and makes Htaven, even the Divine brautv cf the Uodhead, and the glory of the s-iiuts. But mourners, bid repiuings ceae. There il a rid ant angel near. Bum-it's guardian, whisperingto vour hearts t.f peace and resignation. Listen to the Heavenly words, snd though your sorrowing hearts mmt weep, gather the teare and lay them meekly, resignedly, at the feet ot mm wnose own most hlessed lips spoki these consoling words, "Blessed are they mat mourn tor mey man be comtorud. The pale, sad-looking young men whom one occasionally meets in the street are not consumptive, are not mourning the loss of a friend, and are not divinity students. They are breaking in tight boots. JMKN f ATT&RHON. A, H. MnaMSiD. New Advertisement. CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT THS RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC Institute, Troy, ti. V. Instruction vrv practical. Ailvttnugps un9UrrAs-t in this country, i rndutes obtain excellent positions. Reopen Hfpt. IS. For th Annu-il Kcxmter, containing improved Cotlrae of Stmlv. and full nar-iculais.sddrrH Ptor.CHARLES DRW NK, bircctor. jV20 w NO'lll K 13 HEKEBYG1VK THAT a petition will he presented to tbe Gov. erniir of Ohio tor the pard in i,f Mat' ew H. Kimball, who wasconticted of grand larceny in November, 1872, in Franklin county, Ohio, and sentenced to the Bute prison for five J ears. jjjo il Proposals for State Printing. Office Comvissp swia ov Pointing, 1 Coiumbus, ()., June 22, 1874. J SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BBS RECEIVED at the office of Secretary of State of the Sute of Ohio, until Thursday, the 8O1I1 Dy of Jnly, UU, at 12 O'clock M For executing the State Printing for tbe period of two years, f om and after the but Monday of November next ensuing, in accordance with the provisions of the act en titled "An act to provide tor tne execution and supervision of the State Printing and Minding, passed March 24, itibu, tne act supplementary thereto, passed May 1, 1862, and 1 he act amendat'iry thereof, passed April 6, 1866. Full printed specifications, revised, can be had on application to the Secretary of .-tate. is.ncn proposal must he accompanied by a bond, executed in due form by the bidder, with at least two good aud suflicieut sureties saii.factory to the Commissioners of Printing, ia the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned tor the faithful performance, pursuant to law, of such class or classes of the Mate Printing as may be adjudged to him, and for the payment as liqui lated damages by such bidder to the Mate ot any ex- . cess of cost over the bid or bids of such bidder which the State may be obliged to pay for such work by leason of the failure of such bidder to complete his contract; said bond to be null and void if no contract shall be awarded to bim. Ko bid unaccompanied by ivch bond Kill be entertained by the Commit-t,onere of Printing. Copies of bun i (in blank) will be furnish ed to bidders on application te the Secretary of State. In all respects the printing shall be executed and the bil's theieof made out, filed, audited and paid in conformity with tbe provisions of the act ''To piovide for the execution and supervision of the Mate Printing and Binding, passed March 24, 1800, and the smeudatory act of April 6, 1866, to which acts reference U beteby made for BUih further information as may be desired. BiiMcrs for contract So. 2 will nudrstand that the jonrnals of tbe r-enate and H ouse of Hepresentativ s must here-tfier be "pritittd coniactly, wiihout leads, blank li-es or un-ne.es -sry break lints. Attention is aiso directed to section oi the act of March 24, I860. Bills under the 5th class wi 1 hereafter t-e audit d in strict accordance with tht section without reler-enre to the praciite hen-tofore. Propose s 10 he sealed and indorsed on the ouuideof tbeenve ope, Propufalator Public frio'ing," and addressed to lha fcecrttary of fctate. A. T. WIKOT Secretary of State. JAS. W LLIAMS, Audi'or of State. W.T. WILS-iH, Je231tawt4 Comptroller of Treasury.

mm COLUMBUS, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1874. YOL. XXXY. NO. 168. '' v.- SIEBERT & LILLEY, turers, Printers, Binders, Stationers And Legal Blank Publishers; BOOK BINDING Of every description, by the Edition or tingle Volume. OPEBA HOCSE BUILDING, (Up Stain.) . mr20 ' COLUMBCS. -., State lomnal NHcei High, Pearl and Cbnpel St. J. M. OOHLT. COMLY fc A. W. rBANOISOO. PBANCI8CO, PIIRUHERS AND I'ROPniKTORB. JABIKS M. COHLT, Editor. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY Negro proscription, free whisky and repudiation, are three of the main planks in the Indiana Democratic platform. Samdsl J. Kandall, recently renominated for Congress by Pennsylvania Democrats, took back pay and boasted of it. The Cleveland AMaindealer .suggests Rufus P. Banney as a suitable person to lead the Democracy to defeat in the next Presidential canvass. ' He would do very well. The University boat race at Saratoga finally came off Saturday, and was won by the Columbia crew. The young men of the rival crews are very much dissatisfied, of course. , Vice Pbksident Wilson expresses his belief that if Congress were to meet now he would be able to resume his duties as presiding officer of the Senate. His health has become qui'e robust again. scarcely be excelled, while in the precious metals their , wealth, all , accounts agree, is scarcely excelled in any part of the world. Both mining and stock growing, for which the country furnishes almost unequaled opportunities, are now conducted in the most primitive way, the former scarcely at all with modern machinery and appliances. The unsettled condition of the country politically has repelled capital, and even prevented the investigation that would have made generally known its splendid resources. This instability in government has created an intense and pervading feeling for strong, permanent and free institutions, such as can be had only by annexation to the United States. To these considerations may be added the further ones that the Mexican Government is not only ifhable to pay claims for its military seizures and reprisals, but is in great need of money ; that it is scarcely able to maintain its own existence, and much less to afford peace and protection to citizens ; and that the States desiring annexation being distant from the Capital are habitually in a state of revolt against the Federal authorities and almost constantly in conflict with those at home. A1J these and other reasons that might be named give a powerful impetus to annexation sentiment which cannot be long in subduing the old Spanish prejudice against it, and which not unlikely will bring speedily into our possession the territories which of all others on this continent, probably, we may annex with moBt propriety and profit. The Hon. Lewis D. Campbell has published a six column letter opposing adoption of the new Constitution. General Durbin Ward has printed a few of the reasons why, in his judgment, it should be adopted. - , . There is much Democratic groaning in spirit over the discovery that Cowan, the Congressional candidate of the Democrats of the Fourteenth District, is a bank President. It is even feared that he may be tainted with Jacksonian hard money notions. The cable report that the Carlists have seized sixteen hundred men, women and children on the Cantabrian coast, to be Bhot in case of an attack by Kepublican forces, is not an improbable story. The Carlist faotion in Spain like the Spanith party in Cuba has given ample evidence that it is entirely capable of such ferocity, Mexican Annexation. A San Francisco paper of recent date has what it calls authentic information that overtures have been made to our Government by that of Mexico to cede us all territory lying north of a line drawn directly from the mouth of the Bio Grande to the Pacific Ocean. The proposition, it is said, will certainly engross a large share of the attention of Congress at its next session, and so confident of its acceptance are many of the shrewdest and heaviest capitalists of the Pacific coast that they have already invested largely in mines located within the territories to be ceded, and in some instances have dispatched miners to work them. The ar- rangement, if carried into effect, will bring under our flag the Btates of Nueva Leon Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, Lower Cali fornia and portions of binaloa and Du rango. ' Whatever truth there may be in this report, the annexation of some, if not all of these neighboring territories to the Union, is only a question of time, and possibly very short time. Some of them as Chihuahua and Nueva Leon for in stance, have been largely settled up by Americans, many of whom are wealthy and influential, and all of course enthusi' astic annexationists. This American ele- ment has been for some time, and is now more than ever, exciting itself to bring about annexation, and has become sum ciently formidable, both in wealth ana" numbers, to exert no inconsiderable in- fluence in that behalf. It is also able to bring to its aid a powerful incentive, bo far as the Mexican authorities are concerned, in the fact that it holds claims, against Mexico for an immense amount, estimated as high, even, as three hundred millions. These claims grow in part out of seizures of property for war purposes by the various organizations called governments, which have ruled, or rather misruled, Mexico for many years past, and for depredations, various in kind and extent, done in violation of treaty stipulations. In payment of these claims, many of which are undoubtedly valid, the Mexican Government ia likely to be constrained, sooner or later, to give up a considerable portion of its territory from sheer inability to raise the necessary means in any other way. Another consideration largely re-enforc ing annexation sentiment is the increas ing deoire among all foreign and many native resident of Mexico for improved communications both internal and external. Railways and the influx of in telligence, enterprise and wealth they are almost sure to bring are alone needed to place some of the border Mexican States among the most desirable and prosperoui regions of this continent. In climate, scenery aid richness of toil they cam Notes on the Chicago Fire. To the Editor or the Ohio State Journal : : The possibilities of a fire in Chicago are very great. A first alarm, that calls out only the engines of a particular district, causei little excitement. A general alarm and a wind from the southwest, bring consternation. Chicago, reasoning from what she knows, remembers the relentless story of '71, and will listen to no other proposition than: "Given, a fire and a southwest wind, and the city can be destroyed in twentyfour houre." There was a fierce wind from thesouth-west on Tuesday, July 14. There was a fire on South Clark street, and people wondered why there was bo much smoke. There was a Becond alarm, and then third, and the engines from the North Side and West Side thundered down the streets. There was new mean- g on men'B faces, and an expression not pleasant to contemplate. There was dan ger, and they were admitting the fact and calculating the chances. Let the unini tiated understand tuat j,a&aite, titarK, Dearborn and State streets and Wabash and Michigan avenues are the great thoroughfares running north and south through the great business center of Chicago, Michigan avenue being nearest the lake and Laoalle the farthest west. I tie fire broke out near Clark, seven blocks, say, eouth of the Grand Facinc Hotel and the new Custom House, situated on Clark; ten blocks south of the Tribune building on Jjearbon; nine blocks soutu of the Palmer House on State, and seven blocks south of the Exposition building on Michigan avenue, or, in short, the fire broke out only three blocks soutn 01 where commence the lines of magnificent stone fronts of New Chicago. . lhe wind was driving the fire north and east. Can not the reader understand the anxiety of the people? The pride, the wealth of New Chicago, was in the line of the fire, and that fire was beyond the control of the Fire Department. What would you do? The Chicago mail answered the question by preparations to getout of the way. w noiesaie aeaiers iweive ami iiur-teen blocks away, called in their wagons, and quietly removed their goods; dealers apa omciau nearer aia me same wuu more emphasis: occupants ot elegant man sions and of miserable shanties began the removal of furniture, and hence the up roar was not alone where the fire was burning, but everywhere over the threatened district. The fire left Clark street, but swept up Dearborn and State Btreets and Wabash avenue, and finally broke through to Michigan avenue. As the wind blew now more from the west, the Clark street line seemed safe and the other lines in danger, and not till midnight, when the tire had reached within one block of the Exposi tion building, was it checked. The conflagration that raged over me sixtv acres ot trie uurni aistrici nas oeen described by others. I give you only lm nressions. Long before dark the post- office wagons, loaded high with mail bags, were living in groups westward and wueei- ng into line across tne river, witn move ment like that of a battery changing position, and the long lines of wagons o Field, Leiter & Co. were moving in the same direction, bo massed as to convey the impression of suddenness, while their movement was like that ot a oaggagi train. The verv svstem and deliberate ness of general movements of this kind made the people punier, x he wild irenzy that was the rule near tne nre seenien 10 nervade the whole city. There was a general rush for the scene of the dUn.tor, and yei women shook wuu iiervouoiicoH and men were as resentful as though you had Btruck them in the face. After dark the scene was only bucu a one as you can Bee in Chicago. Because no other tremendous crowd could have such memories of a fire and no other crowd could express bo well feelings bo peculiar. The fare was tike otner great fires; now snapping and cracking in a shanty, now roaring about a church, now wreathing in sheets ot name a ineaier, leaping across streets, driving firemen before it, bursting out in unexpected places. Rnt the crowd was different. 11 siooa indiirnant. reproachful, howling. It curxed and screamed when a new nnna-ing burned, but never murmured when the indignant firemen turned the water streams on the people who would not get out of their way. 1 he crowd warned mat, fire extinguished, but it seemed on the verge of tearing Its bair and tearing its clothes did you ask how this was to be done. It was a crowd one nunarea ana fifty thousand strong but helpless as a baby. There was another curious element. Great lines of wagons empty wagons-blocked the etreets, or rumbled along in unbroken procession, and got in terrible snares at the crossings. The drivers were not onlv frantic but pitiless. They drove recklessly through the crowds, and when the people turned in their fury and caught wagon, hones and driver and hurled all back, the stranger's sympathy was with the driver until he learned that the only interest these men had in the fire was to ask some poor unfortunate twentyfive or fifty or seventy dollars a load for hauling away his furniture, and then he viewed the fury of the crowd with a malicious sort of satisfaction. There were other wagons piled high with furniture, or with merchandise, peeding away to the West Side; there were hundreds of men, women and children carrying great bundles; there were quantities of furniture thrown out to be trampled under foot, and all the other attributes that go to make up the confusion incident to a great fire. While there was much foolish excite, ment, there was more cool headed work. While many people remote from the fire carried their trunks to the prairie simply !,... Ik.v iltJ fn 1U7I thora uroro hundreds of business men driving quietly! about in their own carriages, making secure valuable papers, and arranging for determined action in case the worst came. The people generally seemed to realize what might come, and while they were furious and defiant in spirit, they yet made preparation to meet the worst. The fire made the night like day, and all minutia of the scene camo out with startling distinctness. There were anxious watchers on and in every building along the business streets, ready for desperate battle, and such use of water as made the buildings safe from flying brands. When, near midnight, the scorched and wearied firemen checked the fire, the crowd that had stood to taunt or cheer, did not stay to congratulate. But another crowd, composed of the watchers and workenylid this, while the masses scattered to their homes, feeling that the crisis was past. On Wednesday there was a falling back into old ways, but with this a feeling of insecurity, because the wind still blew a gale from the southwest. Again at four o'clock the fire alarm sounded; then a second alarm, and then the general alarm called all the department to the WeBt Side. A column of smoke, indefinite and threatening, told where the fire was this time, and again there was a panic. On Tuesday night the mails, merchandise and all kinds of goods had been taken to the West Side. Here, in the center of a wooden district, was a fierce conflagration driving east toward the main business section. The West Side is a great residence quarter, and West Siders who left homes to look after their business on Tuesday, now hurriedly left business to look after homes. It is a standing remark that a tire once started on the West Side will weep the entire territory, and people be- 'eve it. althoustwthere have been a dozen fires in that part of the city easily controlled. But this was different. There was a high wind from the prairie, and if the fire was two or three miles out the whole West Side was in danger. The fire, however, when the anxious West Siders reached it, was only half a mile went of the river and on a line halt a mite norm ot the business nneoi me noutn Side. But as it was, it was terrible and meant danger in every direction. It is pitiful to see tired firemen striving against tierce flame, but it does the average human heart good to see tired men accomplish a good work. Sixty houses burned in an incredibly short space of time, but the hremen stopped tne grana progress u was making to other districts and the Becond panic was at an end. When you talk of fire in Chicago you recall memories of lost homes, of fearful disaster, of creeping through dark tunnels, of standing scorched and bewildered in the lake, of untold hardships, and a crowd stands before a raging fire hard and desperate because of such memories. But when men are burnt out, they accept the situation, and have most astonishing faith in the future. The main rule ot action Tako things in time, and a common remark on Tuesday night was: xes, the building is fireproof, and the fire isn't coming this way exactly; but that doesn t prove anything, you, know, well gei ready to pull out, all the same." .Nobody argued the case, sso one made any boaHts. No man reassured any other man; no woman advised any other woman to Btav in her house. In the pres ence of a great fire the Chicago man is an individual of little faith. He will tight fire to the last, but he looks well to the line of retreat. Of course, the people are odd. A lady who made a long march in 1871 in a scant petticoat, as soon as the fire of Tuesday became serious proceeded deliberately to dress herself in.her best, and her neiglibori did not (auoi at her. They had their own private notions about tying up neat tittle bundles of valuables, always including a lunch. Servant girls dashed off reckless- lv. intent on placing ereit bundles of clothing in places of safety, and even the children were panicky. One iittle four year old West Sider, catching the spirit of the hour, would (whenever ahe heard, a lresh juvenile rendering oi ineuiBaBiers, past or present), rush into the house, lay vigorous hands on her kitten, and clasp ing it in her arms, seat herself on the front steps, watch the smoke, and calmly await the dire event. Her principal so licitude, however, was for the bears in the enclosure at the park. Effect of lniHKinattnn. The Troy Times relates the following, which may strike the reader as the effects of the imagination of the boy or of the writer: "A lad named Curnmings fell from a. car at Whitehall Wednesday, and the train passed over his arm, severing it. The lad. with great presence of mind, lay still until the train had passed, and thus escaped further injury. When tue lan was taken home his arm was brought af: ter him. It was thrown into a pail, when the noor little fellow screamed with pain. The severed limb was then placed in a box and buried in the garden. Shortly after he said that something wa crawli ng on the inside of the hand. I he limb was eihumed. when a large worm was discovered In the palm of the hand. A large jar was then obtained and it necanie normmiv to crowd the arm in. when the sufferer fairly went into paroxysms of pain. The limbwasplaccdinajarpartiy filled with alcohol, and then replaced in the ground. The little fellow complained that his arm and fingers were in a ter ribly cramped position, and that the tittle finger and the next one were growing together. The jar was then taken up, when the limb waa found crowded and cramped as described. The boy kpew nothing of the disposition of his arm." BY TELEGRAPH TO THE OHIO STATE JOURNAL Night Dispatches. WE THREE. History of the Tilton, Beecher and . Bowen Tripartite Covenant. What the Intermediary Wilkinson has to Bay About lt-Tiltoa' Ex-nlnnatton or hi lllnmlnil iron the . Independent He Aeenea ' lleeeher. Recant, and Again AccusesHe Vows Vengeance on the Plymouth Pastor, and Applies haughty Terms to bl Wife-Shame, inl Behavior Charged upon Beecher by Bowen Highly Seasoned Food for Ctosslps-To be Continued In Our Next. New York, July 19. The Herald prints a statement of Samuel Wilkinson before the Beecher investigating committee, the substance of which is that in the last week of March, 1872, Tilton came to his office and took from a pocket a worn proof pre-s of a letter he proposed to publish in the next issue of the Golden Age unless H. W. Beecher did him justice. The letter, dated January 1, 1871, was addressed to Henry C. Bowen, and acknowledges receipt of the sudden notice of breaking his two contracts with the Independent and Brooklyn Union, and goes on to say that it was in the early part of the rebellion that Bowen first" intimated to him that Beecher had committed the crime of adultery, for which, if he (Bowen) should expose him, he would be driven from the pulpit. "From that time forward Bowen's references to the subject," says Tilton, "were frequent. On the 25th of December, 1870, at an interview in Bowen's house, at which Oliver Johnson was present, you, Bowen, spoke firmly and indignantly of Beecher as an unsafe visitor in families of his church. You alluded by name to a woman, now a widow, whoFe husband's death you did not doubt was hastened by his knowledge that Mr. Beecher had maintained with her improper intimacy. You informed us that Mr. Beecher had made to you a confession of guilt, and with tears implored your forgiveness. Alter Mr. Johnson retired you related to me the case of another woman whom Beecher took in his arms, by force threw her down upon a sofa, accomplished upon her his deviit y, and left her. You suggested a demand upon him to quit his sacred office, volunteered to bear such a demand, and to sustain it. This letter you presented to Mr. Beecher at Mr. Free-land's house. "Shortly afterward you sought an interview with me, and with a face livid with rage, threatened with a loud voice that if I ever should inform Mr. Beecher of the statement .you made about his adultery, or should compel you to do as the evidence on which you agreed to sustain the demand for his withdrawal from Brooklyn, you would deprive me of my engagements with the Independent and Union, and if I ever attempted to enter either of those offices you would have me forcibly ejected. I told you I should inform Mr. Beecher or any one el The Philadelphia Led rer says : "The indications of a revival in the domestic iron trade continue to multiply. V learn that the Cambria Iron company, Johnstown, Pa., have within the past week started their rolling null on 'double turn, and the Bessemer steel works ot tne com nanv. which have been running irregu larly for some time past, would now be running on lull time were it not ior in srareitv of water. This iB. indeed, en couraging. The revival could not begin In anv one uursu t of all our various in dustries that would giveevide nee of being general and lasting than that of iron. A wew "club-house is to be put up in London at a cost of about 81,000,000, and 2500 members are to be admitted. The flair is being managed by party mag nates, among them Mr. Gladstone, the Dukf s of Devonshire, Westminster and Bt. Albans, Lords Granville, Kimberly, Morelv. ec. and Mr. Bright. The en trance fee is to be 31 10. Equitable Insurance company's building. He was flushed and sullen. There was a hitch in the money payment). He said abruptly that he would not sign the agreement, and that it would have to be altered before he would sign it. Kindling in anger as he talked, he said that in the negotiation Mr. Bowen had been well taken care of by Mr. Claflin and Mr. Beeoher, but he bad been left out in lhe cold, with the money due from Bowen unpaid. I combated this fancy kindly, and tried to soothe him, and hold him to the arrangement be had made, but he flew out wild and declared with the utmost passion he would never while he lived sign a paper that Would disable him from pursuing Henry Ward Beecher, and he demanded a copy of his paragraph on the tripartite agreement that he might alter it. I made a oopy for him and be sat down at the table and began to scratch and interline it, but he rose up and carried his wdrk away uncompleted, Before he left I gathered from what he said that Bowen had refused to pay the . full amount of his claim, and that his law suit would have to go on; but the full amount was paid wlthm a dav or two thereafter, and the tripartite agree ment waa executed, not the one 1 dratted and which was accepted by all the parties, but a modification of that. 1 used my last copy of this instrument in my testimony before the committee, and can now only say that all the portions of the agreement which are italicised were omit ted from the agreement finally executed. The efhcacv of the covenants I aimed at was lost and the compact defeated. Tilton, in modifying his paragraph, backed out of his disavowal ot his im putations on Mr. Beecher and hia admissions that they were untrue, and carefully secured to himself the largest libertv to pursue the great preacher forever with innuendoes. My testimony before the committee shows the changes in the tripartite agreement as originally shown, and which all the par ties to it had heartily approved and had promised to sign. It also shows my earn est remonstrances against permitting these charges to be made, and my warning of the mischievous consequences that would inevitably follow. The following are the omitted portions of the original agreements: " 'I, Henry C. Bowen, know nothing derogatory to Mr. Beecher's reputation as a clergyman or a man, and I expressly disavow the charges, imputations and innuendoes reported to have been made by me and set forth in a letter written to me by Theodore Tilton on the first day of January, 1871, a copy of which letter is hereto annexed, and I declare that those charges, imputations and innuendoes are without any foundation in fact, to the best of my knowledge and belief. ("I, Theodore Tilton, returning of my free will to a man whom I have loved as a father, thus renew and confirm my faith in Henry Ward Beecheras agrandly good and generous man. I, too, disavow each ami all of the imputations and charges in the said annexed letter repeated and contained, and any and all other imputations upon his character and conduct which have been said to come from me, I disavow and covenant never to repeat or renew.' " SARATOGA. se according to the dictates of my judg ment. Had your violent language ceased ringing in my ears when I received your summary notices breaking my contraot?" Mr. Wilkeson Bays he wassnocned wun the mischievousness of the matter Tilton threatened to publish. He remonstrated against it. Discussion ensued, on Tilton's part passionate and noisy. He (tilton) complained that Bowen had dismissed ini without cause and ruined mm in fame, prospect and estate, and had crowned this wrong by refusing to pay a large debt for editorial service ot which he was in pressing need, compelling him bring suit to collect it. Jtiis nexi plaint was that Mr. Beecher had not helped bim in his troubles, that he was lying crushed on the siaewaiic in jirooK-lvn and Beecher who had such power that with his little finger he could have fted up and reinstated him; saw him in is agonv and ruin and passed by in si lence and inifference. Rising into dramatic rage, tramping the room frorn corner to oorner, and speaking with intense passion, he declared, "1 will nave revenge on him 1 I will pursue him to his grave 1" "It was clear to me." says Wilkeson, that what Tilton wanted was money, and that bis purpose in coming to me waa to raise money. He felt my omce calm and happy in the prospect ot an arrangement. outlined to him what Bhouia immedi ate! v give bun in hand the money Bower owed him, restore nis oia relations with Beecher and Bowen, and procure for him flattering mention ip tne Independent, and a handsome notioe the Christian union oi ms newspaper enterprise. ine wen known tripartite agreement that came from the negotiation was initiated after this interview. Bowen agreed to pay forthwith Tiltpn'a unpaid saary and to publish a reparatory card in the Independent. On the night of Aprtl 2, 1872, when the agreement was ready for signa ture, Tilton was in a happy frame of mind, and overfjowed' with love and admiration of Beecher." Wilkeson gives the terms of the agreement as originally drafted. This paper was read at a meet ing of four gentlemen, of whom tilton was one. He was charmed with it, and said he could conscientiously and heartily inscribe hia name to every word of it. -1 . i it . i. . would sign It tweiva tliu uci i mm would Induce Bowen to sign It once, and in ilia eagerness took up a pen to sign, but vna rpatTRinetl bv the suggestion inai Bowen might be less willing to sign it Tilton should sign it hrst. it was carried without Tilton's signature. Wilkeson continues as follows : in a full and kipd conversation between me and Tilton, after the meeting on the night of April 2d broke up. he replied to a clear- cut question I put to him, that the only wrong Mr. Beecher bad ever done him had been to address Improper language to his wife, and that for that he had in his hands an ample and satisfactory apoigoy. I repeated the mention of a graver injury than that, made by a person whose is for mal inn was alleged to be derived in sart directly from himself, in part at second hand, from a confession ot nis wue. un great spirit he denied the truth of these statements. He called the informant at second hand a seiually morbid monomania;, who had imagined every word she uttered. He scornfully said tnere was not a shadow of truth in her story. He exnreFsed amatement that the other Per son should state that he had ever said there was anything criminal in Beecher i conduct, and denied in the fullest and most energetic manner that he bad ever said so or said anything that could be so construed by a truthful and healthy mind, and be returned to his pre vioua declaration that Beecher's sole of fense wss improper language to bis wife, and repeated anew and again re pes ted tnat tne written comenion ana spoiogj Tub Grangers of California have re solved t" start a bank with a capital of $5,000,000. One million has already been ..k,tU Th have rtiarlenxl fifty -i- :. v,. r, r v..,!, he had in .keening was ample for that expect scon to send all their grain to mar- wrong. The next morning, on the Sd of ket under their eoleoontrol. April, TUton came to taj office ia the FOREIGN. CUBA. BEPOETED SPANISH VICTORY. ! Havana, July 19. A column of troops from Holguen have encountered the insurgents in the hills of Bijorn, under Calixto Garcia. The position of the latter was captured after five hours' fihgting, and the insurgents dispersed, leaving several dead and prisoners. The Spaniards lost one private killed and one officer and seven privates wounded. The column, after provisioning, started in pursuit of the insurgents. DKTAIM OF DOCKBAY'S TBIAIi. ' - New Yoek, July 19. A Havana letter furnishes the details of the trial f Dockray at Puerto Principe, and his condemnation to death. His defense was a declaration that he was an American citizen, a denial of jurisdiction of the Court or any council of war, and a statement of the facts of his case. He grants the . fact that he was in communication with insurgents, wrote letters to Maximo Gomez, to the Marquis of Santa Luccia and President Cisneros, and that he wrote an account of the battle of Narango and brought out some letters from insurgents, but says his motive was self-defense. He compromised himself to save himself three weeks of exposure, of danger and half starva tion. He was held against bis own will within the insurgent Tines, and it was to escape therefrom that he did acts for whicn be is charged with being an active insurgent. lhe Spanish fiscal agent appears to have accused Dockray of being agent of the United States Government sent to Cuba in the interest of belligerent rights of the insurgents. FRANCE. MINISTERIAL CBISIS. Fabis, July 19. The crisie at Versail les continues. General Cissey will proba bly be appointed Minister of the Interior ad interim. The Duke De Broglie has failed to form a Cabinet btcauae the Legitimits are determined in their oppo sition to the organization of MacMahon's power. FRIENDSHIP OF ITALY. Chevalier Nigra, Italian Minister to France, was present at a fete given in Avignon in honor of Petracb, and in a speech declared Italy would be eternally grateful to France, and he rejoices in being able to give assurances ot the cordial friendship of the two countries. SPAIN. VIGOROUS MEASURES. Madrid, Jnly 18. Decrees have been issued declaring all Spain in a state of siege, sequestrating the property of Car-lUts, whose eBtateB will be held liable to a heavy penalty, to relatives of Republicans slain, and finally creating a special reserve of 125,000 men. The Government announces in its official address that it will not permit the shooting of prisoners in retaliation for Carlist atrocities. ISABELLA. The Gpoca denies that ex-Queen Isabella intends to revoke her act of abdication.BT MAIL AND TELEGRAPH. The Great Boat Kace Tabes place at 1,ui...Uif Cnlnmbiit 'r- W lis th Sixteen Mlniile ami 1'11'ly ecourt. Saratoga. N. Y.. July 18. About fif teen thousand people were assembled at the lake this morning to witness tiie University boat-race, set down for 10 a. m. The lake was smooth as gW, At 9:45 the first gun find; at 10:20 the second, and the starting gun at 1U:4. . All the boats got off handsomely, Co lumbia at a half mile taking the lead. Then Trinity made a spurt, overhauled Co- umbia, and at the end ot a mile took the lead away from Yale, which. in the strug gle, had got ahead, but at that moment fouled and fell behind. Princeton came up close on Trinity. 1 he other crews were about in a line bthlnd, At the mile and a half post Columbia came to the front again, with Harvard struggling sharply, the remain der maintaining their former position. At the two mile point uoiumbia was still in advance, with Cornell making a purt to overtake her, and passing Har vard. At the two and a half mile point Co- umbia was still ahead, with Wesleyan, which now showed great vigor, pressing her Bharply and steadily. J he fast half mile was then one contin uous exciting pull between uoinmoia, Wesleyan, Harvard, and Dartmouth, and they came in in that order, Columbia ahead obout two boat lengths, and making the distance in sixteen minutes and fifty seconds, the winning crew were greeted with tremendous cheering. un reaching tne snore a. n ran k, cap tain and stroke fainted. He was immediately lifted by the crew and carried on their shoulders to Moon's Lake House,but before reaching the house he had entirely recovered. The scene following the race was one long to be remembered, and was only marred by the failure of Yale to partici pate beyond Mill roint, at which, plage Pae was taking the lead with a good prospect for keeping it. ARCH0LO6ICAL. strange Rnlna In Arlcona-Foot- Prluls of a Pro-Historic Race. LANCASTER. Sudden Death f'om Heart Qlsease nrieiiernne tiiyfuiiii. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Lancaster, July 18.A German res ident of this city, named Frederick Fahr, fell dead this morning on the porch of his parents' resldenoe. The Temperanoe Convention here to day was pretty well attended. Rev. J. H. Gardner, of Columbus, addressed the au dience. Attempt to Hldnap Two Women. New Yore, July 19. A Sunday pa per publishes an account of an attempt to kidnap two working girls from this city to a bouse or ill tame in Havana. They were hired by a man giving the name of Dr. Bender, as cook and chamber- man, and sent out on the steamer City of Havana. Un arrival they were olaimed by a woman of ill repnte calling herself bender's wire, but under advice ot the steamship officers refused to accompany her and returned to Aew lork, tne otneers paying their tare. Fatal Fall an a Pitchfork. Evansville, Ind., July 19. William S. Mixler, a printer, of Brooklyn, New York, aged twenty, fell from straw stack about six miles down the river yesterday, with a pitchfork in hia hand. A tine of the fork was driven into hit left side and imbedded in hia spine, where it broke, idle died In three hours, lhe tine, eight inohes long, was taken out at the pott siorfeia to-day. Victim of the Bostan Boy Bf anlerer. Boston, July 19. An examination of the rem sins of Eaty Currnn made to dav by Dr. Dougherty, shows that the body of the girl had been terribly mutilated with a knife in a similar manner to the boy Millan for whose mnrder yonng Pomomy It now hi Id. The Coroner's inqnest will begin to-morrow. Pomeroy's mother and brother are still in custody. Hon. William Hunter, Assistant Secretary of State, arrived at New York fiom .Europe yesterday. Brevet Colonel R. M. Hall, Quartermaster First Artillery, died at Summer-ville, 8. C, Saturday. The wounded from the Canastraga railway accident have been brought to Buffalo, and are doing well. The steamers City of Chester, Adriatic and Egypt, from Liverpool, and the France, from London, have arrived at New York. The large packing and slaughter house at Buffalo, owned by Metcalf & Gushing, adjoining the New York Central livestock yards, was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. Loss $30,000; insured for $15,000. The yacht Foam, which left Toronto a week ago for Niagara, was found Friday, three miles out, with only three feet of the masts above water. The crew, consisting of nine persons, have been given up aB lost. Ohl. Henry Thomas and Simon Spring were upset in a skiff on the Miami at Dayton Saturday, and drowned. Mrs. William Ramsey was attacked by large monkey at Dayton yesterday after noon, and severely hurt. On Saturday morning lant a letter to the compositors of the Cincinnati Gazette office was read by the foreman, informing them that the company had decided to "shake" the Union and reduce the rate of composition to forty five cents per thousand ems. The Union having previously refused to accede to this reduction, all the old hands of the office pome thirtyfiveor forty in number -were summarily dis charged, even the foreman, Mr. Jones. -r . ... . - who bad been in tne omce ten or twelve years, losing his official bead. Iheir places were tilled by twentyslx independ ent printers who had come to the city from Indianapolis under the teadership of Harry Armstrong, a former foreman of the office. It wss expected that the nc tion of the Gazette company would be followed by the Enquirer and Times offices the latter reducing its rates from forty- Beven to tortytwo cents a thousand ems but as yet the expectation has not been fulfilled. Foelurn. Cuenea surrendered to the Carlists on the 15th. The steamship Illinois, from Philadel phia, has arrived at QueenBtown. The steamship Hermann, from New York, has arrived at Southampton. Minister dishing gave a farewell dinner at Madrid Saturday, in honor of aenor Montilla, the newly appointed Ambassa dor to Washington, who is about to de part for the United Mates. The Government has increased the stringency of the regulations restricting I'ltramontane agitations, Ulubs and the clerical press will be closely watched and vigorously dealt with for disloyal or illegal man'featationa. The London Daily Telegraph announces that the proprietors of that paper have united with Mr. James Gordon Bennett in organizing an expedition of African discovery, under the command of Mr. Henry M. btaniey. Alta California.! On the bank of the-Gila river, or abont ten miles below Florence, are the ruins of a nose singular structure a building untune u;r uuyseven leet, Duut ot adobe, which is now so hard that a pick cannot be driven into it. There are two walls a building within a building which are separated about ten or twelve feet, and which are between twentyeight and thirty inches thick at the base. In the walla, up about nine, feet, and extending entirely around the structure, was placed at the time the building was put up, a row of cedar beams, which probably served to brace and strengthen the building. The ends of these timbers, which are still in a fair state of preservation, show that they were consumed by fire, up to and in some instances, part way through the wall. There are now three stories of the wall still standing in one place. The windows are long and narrow, and seem to have been placed where they were needed, and without regard to external symmetry. The doors are at the corners. At the top of the inside walls are several round holes about the size of a hat. The art of plastering seems to have been perfect in those days, aB the inner wall is still (smooth, and of a yellowish white color. What this building was used for can only be conjectured, as it stands in an open space, surrounded by the same class of ruins as those above referred to. It is prubable that it was a church, or, if that people did not worship God, idols may have received adoration there. Near this building, and at other points among these ruined cities, are still standing rows of cedar posts, set on very accurate lines. The upper ends of these posts look old, and have been worn by the elements, still they are in a good state of preservation. The portions that are in the ground are much larger, and are very little aftected by age. The same class of ruins described above can be found all over Southern Arizona, New Mexico Territory, and the norfhern part of Mexico, wherever there are fertile valleys and flowing streams. Little or nothing iB known of the people who built these cities, or when they existed. The Indians say that long ago the inhabitants of these places were summoned ofl to the South, and engaged in a battle in which they were all killed. They probably derived this story from the early AmericanB or Mexicans who visited this section and seeing the ruins, concluded that they were formerly occupied by Borne of the semi-civilized tribes with which Montezuma, the Mexican King, made war, and perhaps plundered their cities and burned them. This is simply conjecture. If these were the facts, as Montezuma kicked up his troubles about three hundred and sixty years ago, we would probably have had some account of it. And then again, there are, we believe, no such pottery and household implements in Mexico as have been found in the Arizona ruins. The theory that the wanderers through Asia.about 1000 or 1800 years ago, crossed Behring'sStraitand made their way down the Pacific coast of this continent into the temperate and torrid zones, may, and probably does, come nearer to offering an explanation. But what has become of this race and Its history? Wci-o bvU blotted out at once, and ii so, by whom? Now that the bloody Apaches are being sub-jugated and exterminated, a fine oppor- Hiuuy uuereu ior acanemies oi natural science and men with money to expend for the enlightenment of mankind, to encourage and aid in exploring these ancient nurieo cities, and to bring to light what has long been enveloped in mystery. Who will be the first to move in this mat ter? EXCURSION TO Dayton and Soldier's Home! WEDNESDAY, JULY 8d, QIVHN BY Iron Castle.No. I.Anclent Order of Knights of the Mystic Chain. TRAIN LEAVES SHORT LINE DEPOT at 5 o'clock a. m. Fare round trip, including Street railroad, $2. Children under 12 years half price. All are invited. Bring your bnsketa. jyiQ'it HOTEIi OBANOB ! LONG STREET HOUSE, H'tST I.OXG ST., (Near High), COLOMBUw, OHIO. D. VAN EVERY, Proprietor. THIS HOUSE! HAS BEEN REFITTED and ri furnished and is now first-class in every respect, and has been reopened by the former p oprietor of the Town Street House The New Albany Stage leaves this House Tuesdajs, 1 hursdays and Haturdaj s, at 7 o'clock a. m., for fow Albany and way stations. jv20 3m Notice to Contractors. Q BALED PROPOSALS k3 CBIVED WILL BE RE- at. ttlA TnwmMn Rati in Franklin township, up to THE 3Sth OF JULY, 1874, Until 2 o'clock p m., for filling a eulvert at Reinhard a, on the Georgeville road Also, for filling a culvert at Halnss, last of the Georgevil e road. The work to be done un der the directio- of the Trustees.' Payments will be made when work is done. The Trustees reserve the right to reject any or all bids. PK TER SOH WABTZ, J. W. A LKIRE, .u.. July 18, 1874. jy!8 dtwll) Trustees. BELL BROTHERS, ABE OFFERISO GREAT DABGAINS IN ' FRUIT JARS Four different kinds. $1 per doz. up. ; Three Popular Patterns JELLY GLASSES, 50 cts. per doz. up To Dealers we can offer Inside figures on FKFIT JARS AND WAX, Direct from factory or from stock. Jars will be scarce. Urder early. Good Stock of CnnA, Fine GLtSSWAKE Aud STONE CHINA. HOTELS, GRANGERS and others, consult your interest and call on us. NEEDING GAS FIXTURES I Look at our nice stuck and save big profits. BELL BROTHERS, 122 SOUTH HIGH STREET. myl eod 3m l4p DIED. Ziiimer On Saturday, at 91 n. m.. after a long ana painmi illness, at tne residence ot h s father, No. CO East Mound street, Jo N William Zimmkr, eldest son of John F. Zim-mer, aged twentyeight years, three months and eleven da s. tuneral from the late residence (No. 60 bast mound street), to-morrow ( Tuesday. 21st,) at 9 o'clock a m. Friends and acquaintances are invited to attend without further notice. Lonabd On Thursday, the 16th inst. in Mariou township, Franklin couuty, Ohio, Berths I.ejna.d, son of Theodore Leonard, aged ihirtRen years The funeral will tate place to-day (Monday) at 10Ji a. m., at St. Joseph's Oathedral, mis city. HsL Saturday ni.ht, at 9Ji o'clock, Mrs. Annii H. Heal, of consumption, in the twenty-lii st year of her ge. Funeral ibis (Monday) afternoon, at 3 o dock, from the Baptist Church. The rela tives ana menus are invited to attend. ' iLSllB I STRAITSVILLE And HOCKING COAL! STONE SEWER PIPE. OFFICE AND YARD t Cor. Fourth and Naghten Streets. Branch Office 161 SOUTH HIGH, (Opera House Building.) Also, Dealers in Drain Tile of all Sizes Agents for lleenon's Celebrated PhcBnix Hydraulic Cement. ' ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. an20 eod ly I&4p Washington, The French postal treaty has been signed by the fresident. The grand jury of the District Criminal Court bas found true bills against A. 11 Underwood, member of the late District Lezislatnre, and engaged as mefsececr the District Controller's office, and Thomas B. Warwick, a street broker and clerk in the same office, both colored, charged with forgery and ottering forged orders for certificates of pay of the police and hremen. OlIlltlAKY. Pied July 16th, at the r sidence of his father, Bebub, son of Theodore and Hannah Leonard, in tbe thirteenth year of hi. ace. One more home is desolate; more hearts nave put on mourning; more eyes are weeping tears, and all because of the old Bud stury, Death I De.r little Beutix I We can scarcely name Death sad when speaking of him. True, hiideath has made in the hearts of those who knew and loved him a void that can never be rilled tilt in the beautifal Home beyond, be bids them welcome and gladdens them with his angel s songs, learn ed at the feet of God. But then h s life was so beautiful his death bo lovelr. that even while we are grieving in our hearts' deepest depths, there is a warm feeling of thankful- ne.-s that boa nas taken him so earlr eie bis purity was sullied by eanhly stain: We have known few who were so entirity the idol of a family as little Bestir, because we have Known so tew with wavs aB winning. simplicity as (harming and chuacter at lovely. If our poor sympathy could iu the leaBt console the afUioted family how gladly would we offer it, and even while we know how powerless it is. right earnestlv we ten der it Hill. What matter to them now that the summer sun shines out so t-loriouslr that the happy birds, in the fulness of their joy, warble forth their merry songs; that the dainty flowers smile npon thini and woo them with their delicate beauty and delicious fragrance ? bat matter we sav. for their hearts are walling and earth to them Beems shorn of its gladness, because he, tbeir dtrl-ing, who lored lhe sunshine, the birds. and the nowers, nas closed nu eves upon them. never, never to gaze on any lesser loveliness than that which fills up and makes Htaven, even the Divine brautv cf the Uodhead, and the glory of the s-iiuts. But mourners, bid repiuings ceae. There il a rid ant angel near. Bum-it's guardian, whisperingto vour hearts t.f peace and resignation. Listen to the Heavenly words, snd though your sorrowing hearts mmt weep, gather the teare and lay them meekly, resignedly, at the feet ot mm wnose own most hlessed lips spoki these consoling words, "Blessed are they mat mourn tor mey man be comtorud. The pale, sad-looking young men whom one occasionally meets in the street are not consumptive, are not mourning the loss of a friend, and are not divinity students. They are breaking in tight boots. JMKN f ATT&RHON. A, H. MnaMSiD. New Advertisement. CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT THS RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC Institute, Troy, ti. V. Instruction vrv practical. Ailvttnugps un9UrrAs-t in this country, i rndutes obtain excellent positions. Reopen Hfpt. IS. For th Annu-il Kcxmter, containing improved Cotlrae of Stmlv. and full nar-iculais.sddrrH Ptor.CHARLES DRW NK, bircctor. jV20 w NO'lll K 13 HEKEBYG1VK THAT a petition will he presented to tbe Gov. erniir of Ohio tor the pard in i,f Mat' ew H. Kimball, who wasconticted of grand larceny in November, 1872, in Franklin county, Ohio, and sentenced to the Bute prison for five J ears. jjjo il Proposals for State Printing. Office Comvissp swia ov Pointing, 1 Coiumbus, ()., June 22, 1874. J SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BBS RECEIVED at the office of Secretary of State of the Sute of Ohio, until Thursday, the 8O1I1 Dy of Jnly, UU, at 12 O'clock M For executing the State Printing for tbe period of two years, f om and after the but Monday of November next ensuing, in accordance with the provisions of the act en titled "An act to provide tor tne execution and supervision of the State Printing and Minding, passed March 24, itibu, tne act supplementary thereto, passed May 1, 1862, and 1 he act amendat'iry thereof, passed April 6, 1866. Full printed specifications, revised, can be had on application to the Secretary of .-tate. is.ncn proposal must he accompanied by a bond, executed in due form by the bidder, with at least two good aud suflicieut sureties saii.factory to the Commissioners of Printing, ia the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned tor the faithful performance, pursuant to law, of such class or classes of the Mate Printing as may be adjudged to him, and for the payment as liqui lated damages by such bidder to the Mate ot any ex- . cess of cost over the bid or bids of such bidder which the State may be obliged to pay for such work by leason of the failure of such bidder to complete his contract; said bond to be null and void if no contract shall be awarded to bim. Ko bid unaccompanied by ivch bond Kill be entertained by the Commit-t,onere of Printing. Copies of bun i (in blank) will be furnish ed to bidders on application te the Secretary of State. In all respects the printing shall be executed and the bil's theieof made out, filed, audited and paid in conformity with tbe provisions of the act ''To piovide for the execution and supervision of the Mate Printing and Binding, passed March 24, 1800, and the smeudatory act of April 6, 1866, to which acts reference U beteby made for BUih further information as may be desired. BiiMcrs for contract So. 2 will nudrstand that the jonrnals of tbe r-enate and H ouse of Hepresentativ s must here-tfier be "pritittd coniactly, wiihout leads, blank li-es or un-ne.es -sry break lints. Attention is aiso directed to section oi the act of March 24, I860. Bills under the 5th class wi 1 hereafter t-e audit d in strict accordance with tht section without reler-enre to the praciite hen-tofore. Propose s 10 he sealed and indorsed on the ouuideof tbeenve ope, Propufalator Public frio'ing," and addressed to lha fcecrttary of fctate. A. T. WIKOT Secretary of State. JAS. W LLIAMS, Audi'or of State. W.T. WILS-iH, Je231tawt4 Comptroller of Treasury.